30min video analysis for $0.003 via frame-tiling and Vision API
Details
- External ID
- 46665035
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- 30min video analysis for $0.003 via frame-tiling and Vision API
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Jan. 18, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 7
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.3544137022397892
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- ai video generation and editing tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- —
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- low-cost video analysis via vision api
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes The technique extracts video frames using ffmpeg, tiles them into single composite images, and sends them to a standard multimodal Vision API (like Gemini or GPT-4o) to minimize token cost.
Discussion
2 comments analyzed.
Competitors
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Launched 79 days after the earliest competitor.
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